The night shift at the gas station was supposed to be temporary, his boss said.

The job kept Mohamed Hassan close to his children in Dublin and brought in some seed money for a
return to the restaurant business that he’d been dreaming about.

Dublin police said yesterday that they now know who snatched that away from the 46-year-old
Hassan on Feb. 13, fatally shooting him and leaving his body on the floor of the W. Bridge Street
Sunoco for the morning clerk to find.

Authorities said Cusey and Collins also are suspected in a robbery at the Dublin Max & Erma’s
restaurant on Feb. 2, and in the Feb. 8 theft of 97 guns from the Powder Room, a Powell gun
range.

Charges are pending in the restaurant robbery, investigators said. Collins has been charged with
breaking and entering and felony theft in the stolen-guns case, and that investigation is ongoing
with charges against others possible, Powell police said.

Last night, Columbus police SWAT officers arrested Murphy at a South Side gas station. Cusey and
Collins were arrested Wednesday night at a Hilliard Motel 6, and several local police departments
and federal ATF agents searched at least four undisclosed addresses as part of the
investigation.

That led to 69 guns found in the Hilltop yesterday. Powell police Chief Gary Vest said
authorities think they are the guns taken from the Powder Room, but that has to be confirmed.

Vest said another seven guns thought to have come from the shooting range were recovered from
the Motel 6 when Cusey and Collins were arrested.

Vest couldn’t say whether any of the recovered guns was used to kill Hassan.

Murphy, Cusey and Collins were all in the Franklin County jail last night and are expected to
appear this morning in Franklin County Municipal Court.

Dublin police Chief Heinz von Eckartsberg said police suspected the three within a few days
after the shooting. He would not detail what led investigators to them, other than to say it was
thorough police work by multiple agencies.

He said police think they know which one shot Hassan, but declined to release that
information.

Murphy was arrested about 8:15 last night at the Turkey Hill gas station on Rt. 62 at I-270,
just north of Grove City.

According to Sgt. Dan Zoretic of the Columbus police SWAT unit, officers had been tracking
Murphy.

“We were always right behind this guy and we knew who he was with,” Zoretic said.

He said that Murphy was in a car with four others when it stopped at the gas station. Murphy and
two women got out of the car and walked into the store. SWAT officers, Zoretic said, yelled to him
to stop as he walked back to the car. Zoretic said that Murphy got into the car, but didn’t resist
when officers pulled him out.

The others in the car were taken into custody, but none was charged last night.

Though court records show Murphy’s last known address to be on Palmetto Street on the Hilltop,
WBNS-TV (Channel 10) reported that he had lived with Cusey and Collins on the West Side.

A woman who lived near them in the Twin Creeks Apartments told WBNS that they had all lived at
3428 Wilson Woods Dr. in the apartment complex until they were evicted on Monday. The woman said
they had tried to sell her a gun.

With the three locked up, police said their focus is on the recovery of the 21 guns still
missing from the Powder Room shooting range.

Officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found the 69 weapons
recovered yesterday in the yard of a vacant Martha Avenue apartment in the Hilltop. Vest said they
had been covered with trash.

Zoretic said a tipster told authorities about guns hidden on the property.

The Powder Room burglars punched a large hole in a cement-block wall and removed
motion-sensitive lamps from the building, police said.

Collins was arrested and charged with breaking and entering in 2009 and with receiving stolen
property in 2007. Both arrests were by Dublin police and appeared to have been dismissed, according
to Municipal Court records.

The arrests brought some relief to family and friends of Hassan.

Adham Matar, the Sunoco’s owner, knew Hassan for years and gave him a job there about a month
ago. It was only until Hassan, former owner of the Happy Greek restaurant in the Short North, could
open another restaurant in Whitehall, he said.

“It was something temporary to get himself moving forward,” Matar said of the clerking job. “Why
would you just shoot somebody (with) a minimum-wage job?”

Joanna Reed, Hassan’s ex-wife, said he was a good father to their 14-year-old son and his
15-year-old daughter.

“My son went to school that morning wondering if that was his dad,” she said. “No good can come
of this situation.”